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Integrated Content Literacy

Integrated Content Literacy

Author(s): Ray Wolpow , Marian J Tonjes

Edition: 5

Copyright: 2006

Pages: 528

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Integrated Content Literacy is a practical text for improving learning in the content areas and is based on current theory. Includes chapters on assessment of text, reading rate adaptability, and vocabulary development. Explicit references to state, national, and international standards are presented as they apply to the concepts and methods in each chapter.

Six unique chapter sections entitled "From the Pages of our Lives" writen by various educators, demonstrate personal commitment and love of learning, which adds meaningful context and perspective to the concepts and methods in this book.

The teaching strategies in each chapter are modeled with cognitive maps, embedded workshops and vignettes from content classrooms. A glossary and extensive references help readers organize and understand the materials. Includes information on religion in the public school curriculum. Each chapter is complete in itself, making it useful in staff development workshops.

Integrated Content Literacy has several features that make it unique from other texts:

  • The tool box of literacy and learning strategies situates the reader as the learner.
  • Each chapter includes a sampling of specific measurable literacy standards established by individual states.
  • "Study Learning" is the authors' own model of interactive study skills that moves in a sequence through all aspects of this important content strategy.
  • Word study references
  • Content IRI reports
  • Directed Reading/Thinking Activities
     

 Brief Table of Contents


Part I  SETTING THE STAGE

Chapter One: A Toolbox of Reading and Learning Strategies

Taking and Making Notes
Teaching Outlining Skills
Skills Needed for Good Note Taking and Making
Abbreviations and Symbols, Listening and Following Directions

Chapter Two: Reading Rate Adaptability

Levels and Rates
The Eye and Mind Connection
The Multiple Reading Process (MRP)
The Eight Steps to Previewing a Large Text
A Weekend with My Grandfather

Chapter Three: A Frame of Reference: Literacy, Diversity, Censorship, and the Mature Reader

Schemata for the Concept of Literacy
Learning to Read vs. Reading to Learn
Introduction to Diversity
Censorship Concerns
Qualities of the Mature Reader
Evangelina Can Read
 
Chapter Four: Promoting Affective Dimensions: The Engaged Reader

Taxonomy of the Affective Domain
Attitudes and Interests
Assessing Atttitudes and Interests
Values Clarification
Engaging All Students: Concerns and Opportunities
Strategies for Engagement
Sharing Is Healing
 
Part II  THE PROCESS OF COMPREHENSION AND ITS ASSESSMENT

Chapter Five: Matching Print with Reader:

Part One: Text Assessment

Plain Language Laws
Readability Defined
Textual Factors: What Makes Something Easy or Difficult to Read?
Levels of Understanding
Tools for Measuring Readability
Readability Checklists
Qualitative Assessment of Text Difficulty
Student Input/Personal Factors
The Readability Assessment Triangle
Textbook Analysis: More Than Just Readability

Chapter Six: Matching Print with Reader:

Part Two:Authentic Reader Assessment

Definitions and Standards
Standards for the Assessment of Reading and Writing
Classroom Assessments: Standardized Tools
Informal Whole-Class Assessment
Student, Parent, and Community Input

Chapter Seven: Making Meaning, Reflecting, and Remembering

The Process of Making Meaning
Taxonomies
Directed Reading-Thinking Activities: The Multiple Reading Process Revisited
Setting the Stage: Pre-Reading Strategies
During-Reading Strategies
Post-Reading
Strategies to Enhance Retention of What Is Read

Chapter Eight: Writing Process, Traits, and Patterns for Content Area Learning

The Writing Process
The Link Between Assessment and Writing to Learn
Analytic Traits of Writing
Content-Area Writing Tasks, Assignments,and Activities
Writing My Way to My Family's History

Part III  SPECIALIZED TOOLS FOR CONTENT NEEDS

Chapter Nine: Vocabulary: Building Blocks to Understanding and Enjoyment

Language Acquisition and Word Study
Specifics Types of Word Study
CSSD for Attacking New Words in All Content Areas
Teaching Strategies: Before, During, and After
Playing with Words: Fun for All!
Ten Things to Remember When Teaching Vocabulary
Vocabulary Tools and Games on the Internet
 
Chapter Ten: Study Learning

Search and Locate Information
Receive and Organize Information
Interpret and Apply Information
Special Strategies
Check/Recall/Monitor Information
Pulling It All Together
Testing

Chapter Eleven: Classroom Organization and Approaches

Organizational Concerns
Teaching Formats
Approaches
Organizing for Diversity Responsive Instruction
Approaches to Bilingual Education
Technology: Organizing Instruction with Old Friends
My High School's Transformational Power
 
Chapter Twelve: Integrating Literature into Content Classrooms

Rosenblatt's Efferent and Aesthetic Reading: Reader Response Theory
Motivating and Restorative Qualities of Literature
Importance of Reading Rate Adaptability
Multicultural Literature for Understanding and Transformation
Locating Appropriate Materials
Other Sources of Help in Selecting Appropriate Trade Books
Content Classroom Activities
The Truth, Whispered or Shouted. . .

Appendix A: Directed Reading/Thinking Activity
Appendix B: Content IRI Report
Appendix C: CIRI for Chemistry and Math: For Use in Triangulation of Assessments
Appendix D: Structural Analysis: Words and Affixes
Appendix E: Word Study References
Appendix F: Religion in the Public School Curriculum: Questions and Answers
Appendix G: Using Advance Organizers to Enhance the Processing of Texts

Glossary
Author Index
Subject Index

Ray Wolpow

Ray Wolpow is associate professor and chair of the Department of Secondary Education at Western Washington University, in Bellingham, where he also serves as the director of the Northwest Center for Holocaust Education.

For twenty years, Ray taught classes in reading, special education, social studies, music, math and English in public and private K-12 schools in New York, Arizona, California and Washington State.  His work with inner-city and rural underachieving students inspired him to develop a nationally recognized program for teaching reading and study skills across the curriculum.  He received the Christa McAuliffe Award for Excellence in Education and certificates of recognition and appreciation from Washington State's Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development and from the Tribal Council of the Lummi Nation.

Ray returned to university in 1993 to study the role that teachers could play in meeting the needs of at-risk students.  His study of the teaching methodologies of three outstanding educators, each a survivor of pervasive and prolonged trauma, won first prize in "Research in Behavior and Social Sciences" at the 1994 Pennsylvania State University Graduate Research Exhibition.

Over the last 11 years Dr. Wolpow has received highly positive evaluations from his university students and from in-service participants.  His university level classes and workshops include content reading, writing and learning; instruction, evaluation and management; and enhancing the resiliency of at-risk students.  In 1999, the President of Western Washington University presented Dr. Wolpow with their university's Excellence in Teaching Award.

Ray's work with the Northwest Center of Holocaust Education includes facilitating teacher in-service about Holocaust/genocide/ethnocide education and maintaining a resource center with appropriate grade-level materials.  Two years ago he helped Holocaust survivor and retired teacher Noemi Ban author and publish her story as a book for elementary students.

Dr. Wolpow has an M.A. degree in special education from Teachers College, Columbia University and a Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction from Pennsylvania State University.

Marian J Tonjes
Marian J. Tonjes is a Professor Emerita from Western Washington University, Bellingham and currently Adjunct Professor, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.  Author of many articles and texts, Dr. Tonjes has won a number of awards over the past years, and the one she treasures most is the "Distinguished Teaching Award" for the University, presented to her by Western's president in 1981, with the highest student evaluations up to that time.  She is known internationally for her work and has been an invited speaker throughout the United Kingdom as well as Argentina, Australia, Canada, China, Estonia, Germany, Guam, India, Hungary, the Netherlands, Sweden and the Philippines.  She was the first invited guest in Reading from the U.S. o speak for eight days in Moscow to educators across Russia and the USSR.  She is serving her sixth year as a trustee of the secondary White Mountain School in Bethlehem, NH, and is an honorary trustee of the Lomononov School n Moscow.  She has served as an international advisor for Vantage Deluxe Travel.  From 1976-1993, she developed and was Director of Western's "Summer Study in England" program at Oriel College, Oxford University, and has recently been mad an honorary Oxonian as well as a Friend of Oriel.  In 2002 she designed and with her sister, Caroloyn Grant, led a study tour group "In the Footsteps of Dickens" throughout England.  she was the first elected chair of the American Reading Forum and has never missed the annual conference.  she is also active today in ARF, IRA, PEO, Tri Delta and Circumnavigators.  In 2005 she was nominated by McDaniel College (formerly called Western Maryland College) as their outstanding professional alumna.

Integrated Content Literacy is a practical text for improving learning in the content areas and is based on current theory. Includes chapters on assessment of text, reading rate adaptability, and vocabulary development. Explicit references to state, national, and international standards are presented as they apply to the concepts and methods in each chapter.

Six unique chapter sections entitled "From the Pages of our Lives" writen by various educators, demonstrate personal commitment and love of learning, which adds meaningful context and perspective to the concepts and methods in this book.

The teaching strategies in each chapter are modeled with cognitive maps, embedded workshops and vignettes from content classrooms. A glossary and extensive references help readers organize and understand the materials. Includes information on religion in the public school curriculum. Each chapter is complete in itself, making it useful in staff development workshops.

Integrated Content Literacy has several features that make it unique from other texts:

  • The tool box of literacy and learning strategies situates the reader as the learner.
  • Each chapter includes a sampling of specific measurable literacy standards established by individual states.
  • "Study Learning" is the authors' own model of interactive study skills that moves in a sequence through all aspects of this important content strategy.
  • Word study references
  • Content IRI reports
  • Directed Reading/Thinking Activities
     

 Brief Table of Contents


Part I  SETTING THE STAGE

Chapter One: A Toolbox of Reading and Learning Strategies

Taking and Making Notes
Teaching Outlining Skills
Skills Needed for Good Note Taking and Making
Abbreviations and Symbols, Listening and Following Directions

Chapter Two: Reading Rate Adaptability

Levels and Rates
The Eye and Mind Connection
The Multiple Reading Process (MRP)
The Eight Steps to Previewing a Large Text
A Weekend with My Grandfather

Chapter Three: A Frame of Reference: Literacy, Diversity, Censorship, and the Mature Reader

Schemata for the Concept of Literacy
Learning to Read vs. Reading to Learn
Introduction to Diversity
Censorship Concerns
Qualities of the Mature Reader
Evangelina Can Read
 
Chapter Four: Promoting Affective Dimensions: The Engaged Reader

Taxonomy of the Affective Domain
Attitudes and Interests
Assessing Atttitudes and Interests
Values Clarification
Engaging All Students: Concerns and Opportunities
Strategies for Engagement
Sharing Is Healing
 
Part II  THE PROCESS OF COMPREHENSION AND ITS ASSESSMENT

Chapter Five: Matching Print with Reader:

Part One: Text Assessment

Plain Language Laws
Readability Defined
Textual Factors: What Makes Something Easy or Difficult to Read?
Levels of Understanding
Tools for Measuring Readability
Readability Checklists
Qualitative Assessment of Text Difficulty
Student Input/Personal Factors
The Readability Assessment Triangle
Textbook Analysis: More Than Just Readability

Chapter Six: Matching Print with Reader:

Part Two:Authentic Reader Assessment

Definitions and Standards
Standards for the Assessment of Reading and Writing
Classroom Assessments: Standardized Tools
Informal Whole-Class Assessment
Student, Parent, and Community Input

Chapter Seven: Making Meaning, Reflecting, and Remembering

The Process of Making Meaning
Taxonomies
Directed Reading-Thinking Activities: The Multiple Reading Process Revisited
Setting the Stage: Pre-Reading Strategies
During-Reading Strategies
Post-Reading
Strategies to Enhance Retention of What Is Read

Chapter Eight: Writing Process, Traits, and Patterns for Content Area Learning

The Writing Process
The Link Between Assessment and Writing to Learn
Analytic Traits of Writing
Content-Area Writing Tasks, Assignments,and Activities
Writing My Way to My Family's History

Part III  SPECIALIZED TOOLS FOR CONTENT NEEDS

Chapter Nine: Vocabulary: Building Blocks to Understanding and Enjoyment

Language Acquisition and Word Study
Specifics Types of Word Study
CSSD for Attacking New Words in All Content Areas
Teaching Strategies: Before, During, and After
Playing with Words: Fun for All!
Ten Things to Remember When Teaching Vocabulary
Vocabulary Tools and Games on the Internet
 
Chapter Ten: Study Learning

Search and Locate Information
Receive and Organize Information
Interpret and Apply Information
Special Strategies
Check/Recall/Monitor Information
Pulling It All Together
Testing

Chapter Eleven: Classroom Organization and Approaches

Organizational Concerns
Teaching Formats
Approaches
Organizing for Diversity Responsive Instruction
Approaches to Bilingual Education
Technology: Organizing Instruction with Old Friends
My High School's Transformational Power
 
Chapter Twelve: Integrating Literature into Content Classrooms

Rosenblatt's Efferent and Aesthetic Reading: Reader Response Theory
Motivating and Restorative Qualities of Literature
Importance of Reading Rate Adaptability
Multicultural Literature for Understanding and Transformation
Locating Appropriate Materials
Other Sources of Help in Selecting Appropriate Trade Books
Content Classroom Activities
The Truth, Whispered or Shouted. . .

Appendix A: Directed Reading/Thinking Activity
Appendix B: Content IRI Report
Appendix C: CIRI for Chemistry and Math: For Use in Triangulation of Assessments
Appendix D: Structural Analysis: Words and Affixes
Appendix E: Word Study References
Appendix F: Religion in the Public School Curriculum: Questions and Answers
Appendix G: Using Advance Organizers to Enhance the Processing of Texts

Glossary
Author Index
Subject Index

Ray Wolpow
Ray Wolpow

Ray Wolpow is associate professor and chair of the Department of Secondary Education at Western Washington University, in Bellingham, where he also serves as the director of the Northwest Center for Holocaust Education.

For twenty years, Ray taught classes in reading, special education, social studies, music, math and English in public and private K-12 schools in New York, Arizona, California and Washington State.  His work with inner-city and rural underachieving students inspired him to develop a nationally recognized program for teaching reading and study skills across the curriculum.  He received the Christa McAuliffe Award for Excellence in Education and certificates of recognition and appreciation from Washington State's Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development and from the Tribal Council of the Lummi Nation.

Ray returned to university in 1993 to study the role that teachers could play in meeting the needs of at-risk students.  His study of the teaching methodologies of three outstanding educators, each a survivor of pervasive and prolonged trauma, won first prize in "Research in Behavior and Social Sciences" at the 1994 Pennsylvania State University Graduate Research Exhibition.

Over the last 11 years Dr. Wolpow has received highly positive evaluations from his university students and from in-service participants.  His university level classes and workshops include content reading, writing and learning; instruction, evaluation and management; and enhancing the resiliency of at-risk students.  In 1999, the President of Western Washington University presented Dr. Wolpow with their university's Excellence in Teaching Award.

Ray's work with the Northwest Center of Holocaust Education includes facilitating teacher in-service about Holocaust/genocide/ethnocide education and maintaining a resource center with appropriate grade-level materials.  Two years ago he helped Holocaust survivor and retired teacher Noemi Ban author and publish her story as a book for elementary students.

Dr. Wolpow has an M.A. degree in special education from Teachers College, Columbia University and a Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction from Pennsylvania State University.

Marian J Tonjes
Marian J Tonjes
Marian J. Tonjes is a Professor Emerita from Western Washington University, Bellingham and currently Adjunct Professor, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.  Author of many articles and texts, Dr. Tonjes has won a number of awards over the past years, and the one she treasures most is the "Distinguished Teaching Award" for the University, presented to her by Western's president in 1981, with the highest student evaluations up to that time.  She is known internationally for her work and has been an invited speaker throughout the United Kingdom as well as Argentina, Australia, Canada, China, Estonia, Germany, Guam, India, Hungary, the Netherlands, Sweden and the Philippines.  She was the first invited guest in Reading from the U.S. o speak for eight days in Moscow to educators across Russia and the USSR.  She is serving her sixth year as a trustee of the secondary White Mountain School in Bethlehem, NH, and is an honorary trustee of the Lomononov School n Moscow.  She has served as an international advisor for Vantage Deluxe Travel.  From 1976-1993, she developed and was Director of Western's "Summer Study in England" program at Oriel College, Oxford University, and has recently been mad an honorary Oxonian as well as a Friend of Oriel.  In 2002 she designed and with her sister, Caroloyn Grant, led a study tour group "In the Footsteps of Dickens" throughout England.  she was the first elected chair of the American Reading Forum and has never missed the annual conference.  she is also active today in ARF, IRA, PEO, Tri Delta and Circumnavigators.  In 2005 she was nominated by McDaniel College (formerly called Western Maryland College) as their outstanding professional alumna.